Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

A book post!

I recently read through Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. I went through a Crichton phase at the end of high school where I just read Crichton books until my brain couldn't deal with it anymore, but Jurassic Park didn't end up on my list. I have no idea why. There were definitely copies of it in the library, but I skipped over them.

This is a great book. I think my experience reading it was affected by being familiar with the movies and, I will admit, that I ended up rewatching the first two movies in the middle of this book because I kept getting the theme stuck in my head. While I do enjoy the movies, I really liked this book by the time I finished it. I was impatient with the set up when I first started it, but I think this ends up being a better story by the end.

A lot more of the island is explored during the book and I really enjoyed the behavioral observations and experiences with the dinosaurs. There was some especially interesting observations of the T-Rex, which made parts of the movie actually make more sense to me. Also, the luxury of time with books explains the mutation and adaptation of the dinosaurs in a much more comprehensive way. The socio-political climate in the book, which wasn't really explored in the movies, added another interesting layer to the whole thing.

I really liked this book. It expanded the whole world of Jurassic Park, but it didn't ruin the movies for me, which was really nice. Sometimes it's hard to really like the book and the movies at the same time, but that isn't the case with this one for me.


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Key Card Cozies, WIPs, and Congo

1. Key Card Cozies for Work Folk

After the rush of everyone at the end of the year, some of the folks from work who had commissioned card holders from me in past years wanted to get some new ones. The old ones were starting to wear out. So I designed a new one that should hold up better.






I've made about eight of these suckers so far, which puts a few extra dollars in my pocket. My coworkers are very pleased.


2. WIPs


I put aside these socks last year when it came closer to holiday time, so I'm picking them up again now that I've gotten some other stuff out of the way.



Started a granny square blanket out of some yarn recycled from a sweater. It'll probably only be a lap blanket, but I'm interested to see what this will look like.



And this image I stole from my Instagram, but I didn't want to take another photo of the same thing. I'm working on a woven Gandalf scarf for the Etsy shop.



3. Congo by Michael Crichton

I'm very good at forgetting things, particularly how much certain authors' writing fit right into the nooks of my brain. I cracked this book open and couldn't put it down. It felt really good to have something grab my imagination like that. I finished this book within 24 hours and it has been a long time since I've felt that. And I enjoyed it a hell of a lot, though I think I was more interested in Amy than in the rest of the story.

Which then prompted me to add a ton of documentaries about African wild life to my Netflix and Amazon Prime queues. I'll have an educational couple of months going through all those.